Body Treatments

Gruss Gott! Week One.

2012-01-15T07:06:00.000-08:00

So, we made it one week in Vienna. Well, actually a week and a half. So far, so good. What I love about our apartment is the location. We are central to what seems like everything. This is the cafe you see when you walk out of our building.

So far, my favorite thing to do is to go to the Naschmarkt (1 block from our apartment) and enjoy all the fresh food. It is incredible. It certainly is a luxury to have fresh food daily - cheeses, wurst, bread, vegetables, pastries, etc. Here are some pictures I took yesterday.

They also have fresh flowers daily.

You can tell the Europeans are used to eating fresh foods daily as their refrigerators are so small. There is no room to store or freeze much of anything.

Luke completed 3 half days of his new Viennesse Montessori school. I am so proud of him. From what I can tell (at this early stage), the kindergarden school system is very different from the American. And, I can't get over how much smaller everything is here - especially the school class rooms and the playground (which they call 'garden'). It makes you really appreciate 'space'.

Elizabeth is faring well, but I am trying really hard to get her into a fixed sleeping schedule. Once I can do that, my daily routine will be easier and more predictable. So, for the time being, I am a bit limited with my outings around the city. I'm sticking to a radius of about half a mile.

This past week we've been focusing on just getting settled and getting some of the bureaucratic things done which always is a bit slower here in Europe. With this behind us and Elizabeth schedule more regular, I am hoping to venture out to explore more of the city - especially the innerstadt, flea markets and the many furniture and antique stores (which seem to be everywhere).

Jenny Wolf Interiors

2012-01-12T02:30:00.000-08:00

I love pinterest. Who doesn't? I stumbled across Jenny Wolf interiors while pinning and I hopped over to look at her portfolio - I am so glad I did. I really like her style. She grew up in the South and credits her style to her Southern roots. Anyway, I like what I saw and thought I'd share.

Pretty, huh?

Also, I realized I never posted my pinterest account on my blog before. If you want to follow my boards, you can find me here.

Yum-O

2012-01-11T09:58:00.000-08:00

Along with all the other fun and not so fun things on our list of things we wanted to get done over our week long Christmas vacation we added try new recipes to it at the last minute {the reason it's not on the "official" list}.....

This actually got pushed till the last few days we were home. Mostly because we were exhausted and our kitchen was covered in dust up until the end of the week. What we did manage to try was definitely worth the wait! First up, French Toast. Alton Brown style. Here is the recipe. I do not have a picture of ours... probably because I was to busy scarfing it down. If you haven't gotten it by now we are obsessed with Alton. Talon watches EVERY episode of Good Eats. So far, all of his recipes that we've tried have turned out really good...so he is our current go to for new recipes. We also tried his Sour Cream Cheese Cake.

The picture does not do it justice. So good. Did you guys cook up any new treats over the holidays? That was one of my favorite parts about this past holiday season...trying new recipes...cooking for family and baking sweet treats for friends. Now I miss Christmas. Only 11 more months!

Custom Kitchen Cabinets

2012-01-10T07:39:00.000-08:00

So, by now I am sure you get the point that we were on a mission to make our kitchen more functional and organized during our time off. We customized our pantry {more about that here} and customized our kitchen drawers {more about that here}. The next and last item on our agenda was to make an easy to access space for our pots and pans. Up until now they were crammed in to the back of a corner cabinet and you were likely to be injured if you attempted to get one out. After much searching on the Internet we really loved the fancy pull out drawers that a lot of the high end kitchens have. Which got Talon's wheels to spinning and the idea of making our own custom pull out drawers evolved....

This is a bottom cabinet and used to hold unnecessary kitchen items {ex: crock pot - could totally be re-located to a less easier to reach location since we do not use it on a daily basis}. So, it was a prime candidate for the mini-makeover.

This is how Talon said we did it {my portion was all moral support}: We measured the cabinet opening and determined the location of the trays. We then glued and tacked in some support risers for the slides {which we purchased at Home Depot} to be screwed into. We then had to determine the height that the slide needed to be, leveled it, then screwed them in {this had to be done for both sides and both drawers}. Up next it was time to build the drawers themselves. We measured the distance between the slides to determine the drawer width. The MDF that we were using was cut down to the appropriate width. We also had to cut strips that equal the depth that we wanted the drawers to be. Once everything was glued and nailed together all we had to do was mount them on the slides.

This has by far been the greatest thing we have done in our kitchen. It's no longer a fight to get a pot or a pan for cooking. We simply open the cabinet and pull out a drawer. The slides that we used allow the trays to extend all the way out of the cabinet making it even easier to grab things from the back. That wraps up our kitchen organization/customization craziness but we are already brewing other ideas for the future!

Crushing hard....

2012-01-10T04:34:00.000-08:00

I know Nick Olsen's apartment featured on West Elm's blog, has been all over the blogosphere, but I had to post it because it provides endless inspiration (at least for me).

What I'm loving....

1. Stripes on wall

2. Yellow lamp with black shade

3. Classic linens

4. Antique table

5. Stack of books

If you haven't seen it, go here.

In other news, we're slowly getting settled in our apartment! Luke had his first day of school today at the Vienna Montessori school and he really liked it. I'm so relieved. More later.

I'm alive....

2012-01-07T13:31:00.000-08:00

but just not 100% with it. We survived the long plane trip (long b/c our kids barely slept) but we, thankfully, made it safely to Wien.

Here is a picture of us at the start of our trip....

and, at the tail end of the trip when the kids finally passed out (with literally 20 minutes to go). Isn't that always the case?

We're suffering from severe jet lag and when I say 'we' I mean the kids; but I am the one telling Luke at 2 AM in the morning that it isn't time to get up yet. I'll be back soon.....

Organize Your Drawers.

2012-01-06T08:29:00.000-08:00

Remember yesterday's post where I listed all the things we wanted to do during our time off over Christmas and New Years? One of those things was 'Drawer Organization.' We were referencing our kitchen drawers. Specifically, we had three drawers in mind. Utensil, silverware and one that was empty and providing no function for our kitchen. The utensil and silverware drawers contained plastic trays similar to this....

We've always hated those things. They get dirty and slide all over the drawer. So we removed them and we were left with blank slates...

We quickly customized them to look like this....

Here's a run down on how we (aka Talon) did it. First we purchased 1/2 inch mdf. It's about $26.00 for a 4x8 sheet. We then measured the depths of the drawers and ripped strips out of the plywood on the table saw to that depth. The best part was that we got to customize them however we wanted. For example, length and width for every slot was our decision. Once we decided on the size of each insert we measured them and cut the ripped strips to the desired length. Per Talon, this was extremely easy and I can vouch that it took him less than an hour to complete the inserts.

Here is the utensil drawer with all of our kitchen gadgets placed back in it. What used to feel like a junk drawer feels like an organized and easy to access space. Everything seems to fit so much better and with the built in dividers we are able to use every inch of the drawer. Where with the plastic inserts we were limited.

We didn't stop there. We still needed something to do with that empty drawer that really had no purpose. We decided it would be best utilized if it held all of our cutting knifes. It would also get rid of that gigantic knife block holder. Three cheers for that.

Talon claimed this was a little bit trickier than the others. Here's how he did it. Measured the depth of the drawer and determined the position of the knife block. He then glued several strips of the mdf together to add up to slightly less than the depth of the drawer. Using the miter saw, ripped out slots for the knife blades to rest in. Then, using a piece of scrap, glue on an extra piece to support the knife handles, which keeps the front of the knife from lifting out of the slot. It was all then nailed to the drawer with a nail gun (Tal's Tip: Use the appropriate length nail and only in strategic positions to avoid splitting the mdf (it can be done on 1/2 inch) and/or a blowout).

What do you think? Aren't they so fancy? We've loved all of our custom drawers so far!

Pantry Makeover

2012-01-04T10:09:00.000-08:00

Talon and I had 10 full days off of work. It was glorious! Of course, several of those days were filled with Christmas activities but I had a big plans for the others....

Yep,a Christmas vacation 'to do' list. Have I mentioned that I have no idea how to relax? Literally, I can't sit still. If I do, I go straight to sleep. Lucky for me...Tal was on board for the majority of the list. In case you have trouble reading here is a quick run down. 1. Pantry {More about that in a minute} 2. Go to Movies {Had to have fun stuff to look forward to! Plus we never do this because it is SO darn expensive.} 3. Clean Oven {The inside of course. Just one of those things we never get around to doing}. 4. Wash Duvet {Easy task. I love to check things off a list} 5. Organize Attic {Not so easy task but was a great time to do it since we would be putting up Christmas decor} 6. Starbucks Date {So fun} 7. Clothes Shopping {This was for Tal - I have no problem making time to clothes shop for myself:)} 8. Paint Office {More on that later} 9. Stencil Office {More on that later} 10. Fish Scale Art {More on that later} 11. Ping Pong {Nothing better than a little competition to spice the week up} 12. Drawer Organization {Again, more on this later in the week}How's that for a Christmas Vacation? It was SO much fun though. Talon and I love doing projects together...nothing better than quality time spent covered in dust and paint:) So, first on the list was our pantry. Not to long ago we built a custom spice rack for the back of our pantry door. More about that here. It has been so wonderful that we wanted to do some more updates in the ol' pantry. See those ugly wire shelves....

We wanted to get rid of them and that is what we planned on doing. Here is how....First up, removing all of the wire shelves and hardware. We plan to craigslist them to cover some of the cost of the new shelves.

Once done, we were left with lots and lots of holes to deal with.

We used Spackling to patch all of the holes. It's purple when you apply and turns white once ready to be sanded down. Making it very easy to use.

After the holes were patched I gave it a nice coat of paint to pretty it up. Luckily, I was already painting the office (remember that was on our to do list too) and the color was only a hair darker than what our kitchen is so I was able to use that and it blends very nicely! Once all the prep work was done we were ready to tackle the big stuff...the shelves themselves. We purchased and sanded pine plywood ($26, 4x8 sheet), 6ft 1x6 select pine for facing and 3 1x2 select pine for the shelving cleats. Once we found the studs in the pantry we then determined appropriate shelf depth. We then cut the cleats to the appropriate length. Pre-drilled and countersinked the cleats to the pantry wall with 3" drywall screws. The pantry shelves were cut out of the sanded pine plywood to the appropriate depth and width and nailed in place with a nail gun.

We then measured and ripped down 1x6s to the appropriate width for the facing. They were then nailed in place with the nail gun. All seams were caulked and wood filler was used on the joints. Allowed to dry and then it was all sanded....

After a fresh coat of white paint....they were ready to hold all of our daily necessities!

No more falling through the cracks of the wire shelf. We can utilize the entire space and it glorious!

We've been collecting storage containers from IKEA to help organize this space.The labels are hand written so they can be removed and modified easily depending on what is being stored in each piece.

Is it weird that when anyone comes over I want to scream "look how awesome our pantry is!"??? Yep, we love it that much. Between the spice rack and all the added shelf space it's perfect!

Total cost for this pantry makeover (shelves only) was around $50.00 (excluding things we already had like paint, wood filler, nails and the fact that we only had to use 1/2 the sheet of plywood). We think it was well worth the time and money spent since the pantry is something we utilize every single day. Anything to make life a little easier!

Happy New Year!

2012-01-03T10:25:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year! We sure did. It was so relaxed and uber laid back. Which made it all the more wonderful! Here's a few photos of what our Christmas Day and Eve looked like....

My parents and I on Christmas Eve.

Our nephews ready to open presents....

Creed Baby.

The whole fam on Christmas morning...

Santa was very good to Tils:) We were blessed with an amazing Christmas! After the holiday shin digs were over we did manage to use the rest of our time off work to be VERY productive. SO many house projects to share in the next week!!

2011: A Year in Review

2012-01-01T06:04:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!! 2011 has brought a lot of success in so many ways! Of course the greatest is little E that is now 3 and 1/2 months old. Other successes were finishing up some long standing projects around the home and getting our house sold in a relatively quick manner. Here are some Green Street 2011 highlights:

DIY bulletin board

Before & After Kitchen Roman Shade

Before & After Kitchen Stool

RIT Dyed Lamp Shade

DIY Painted & Stenciled Ikea Rug

Before & After Kitchen

Before & After Patio

Before & After Hallway

DIY Greek Key Roman Shade

Before & After Renovated Bathroom

Before & After Dining Room

Before & After Sideboard

Make sure you click on the links to see the 'before'. There are some huge transformations.

All of these projects were completed before Elizabeth was born in September and our house sold in October. Phew! We accomplished a TON in 2011 and I look forward to a new adventure when we temporarily move to Vienna, Austria (leave this Tuesday).

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year's Day and the next time you'll hear from me will be in Vienna!! Bis dann....

Body Treatments - Rejuvenate Your Soul

2012-01-01T03:09:00.000-08:00

Facials are wonderful, but they are nothing compared to an invigorating body treatment. Unlike facials, body treatments allow you to experience the same cleansing and exfoliating effects over your entire body, leaving you feeling completely rejuvenated - it's the perfect way to unwind and recover after a long, stressful week.

Types of Body Treatments

There are many different types of body treatments, and although they may vary from location to location, there are a few that are found in most spas around the world. They include:

• Body Scrubs - These involve rehydrating and smoothing the skin thanks to deep exfoliating procedures using various salt mixtures. Body scrubs not only tone your skin but they absorb toxins as well, leaving you feeling rejuvenated with beautiful, glowing skin.

• Body Masks - These treatments typically involve two steps, detoxifying and hydrating. In order to detoxify the skin, the body is covered with a unique blend of seaweed, algae or mud. Not only does this increase the body's metabolism but it also forces waste products out of the skin. The second step involves hydrating the newly detoxified skin by using specialized creams and lotions.

• Body Wraps/Detoxifying Wraps - This treatment is uniquely designed to restore a healthy body tone by wrapping the body in warm towels which allows a special blend of herbs to penetrate the skin. Not only does this treatment remove clogged pores, but it also eliminates toxins from the skin as well. Many spa goers seek out body wraps to treat cellulite or to temporarily lose weight for special occasions.

• Salt Glow Treatment - This treatment is particularly invigorating thanks to an exotic blend of aromatics, oil, and sea salt, which the massage therapist rubs into the skin, leaving it feeling soft and fragrant.

• Airbrush Tanning - If you want the sun-kissed glow that so many strive for, but don't want to damage your skin by exposing yourself to harmful UV rays, then this is the treatment for you.

• Herbal Moisturizing - If you suffer from chronically dry skin, then you should definitely consider an herbal moisturizing treatment. A unique blend of herbs are combined with a cream and massaged into the entire body, which rehydrates the skin and restores your natural glow.

• Vichy Shower - If you want to reconnect with nature, consider ordering a Vichy shower, which is a very soothing and invigorating treatment involving water massage, which aids the body in cleansing toxins by stimulating circulation and lymphatic flows.

If you are feeling tired and rundown, or your skin just doesn't glow like it used to, then head to your local spa and treat yourself to one of their many amazing body treatments, which will leave you feeling rejuvenated in body, mind and soul.

Happy New Year Wallpaper 2012

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Kate Winslet Wallpapers

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Kate Winslet

Window Vista Wallpapers

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Vista Wallpapers

Cool Lamborghini Wallpapers

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Lamborghini

Harry Potter Wallpapers

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Harry Potter

The African Bull Dog ( KENYA )

2011-12-27T12:36:00.000-08:00

Sustainable by all means.

Mombasa (Kenya) is the location where this unique prototype was conceived. Details are outlined from their Facebook page.

Completed

30th January 2011

The vehicle

The african bull dog is a Kenyan Built Off Road 4X4 Vehicle and MPV; This car is built for every day use, it can be used in farms as a produce cart, or even as an ambulance at Marsabit desert to provide emergency care to the forgotten communities and as a truck to ferry drugs to those remote places that you have never heard of!; With ample backing, the African Bulldog can do for Kenya what the Citroen 2CV did for France and the V.W Beetle for Germany!

Company Overview

Heino Autoworx is a Leading 4x4 vehicle workshop based in Mombasa at the Mtwapa Creek, Kenya. We have been involved in the maintenance of 4x4 vehicles and S.U.Vs for years and we decided to push the boundaries.

Description

The African Bull Dog is the brain child of Engineer Heino, he has a vast experience in the automotive and boat industry. The crew has been working tirelessly to ensure that we meet our target and we build a vehicle that meets the standards of the 4X4s we work on on a daily basis.

Mission

4X4 Extreme Efficient Performance!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/African-Bull-Dog/160682840649799?sk=wall

BAILEY LMP2 ( SOUTH AFRICA )

2011-12-27T10:00:00.000-08:00

This is an African Phenomenon for 2011. Below are the stats straight from the makers mouth describing this awesome beast.

"Bailey Cars took the Bold and Brave step of building a current day Prototype car in 2009. Its taken 2 years of intense design and manufacture to produce this master piece of south African engineering.

The car has had many firsts for South Africa such as full carbon Tub, full CFD body design and building a car to the A.C.O Le Mans 24 hours regulations

The car is available to customers who would like to compete in sports car racing throughout the world in events such as ALMS, Le Mans series, Asian Le Mans Series and even the South African Le Mans Series and RSA GT challenge.

Chassis

· Carbon composite monocoque chassis

· Monocoque certified to all ACO and FIA structural and crash standards

· Adjustable pedal box and steering column

· Safety equipment includes 6-point lightweight seat belt harness

· Plumbed in fire extinguisher system

Engine

· 460hp maximum as regulated by ACO
· The engine must be made in a minimum of 1000 units in 12 consecutive months and must come, either from a grand touring car, Or from a large production car.
· Choice of homologated BMW, Lexus, Toyota or Nissan 5000 cm3 8 cylinders maximum. maximum
· Or 3200 cm3 forced induction engine with max 6 cylinders
· Diesel not allowed in LMP

Suspension

· Double wishbone layout all round

· Pushrod rocker type with damper and coil over spring all round

· Third-spring option for front and rear suspension

· Frictionless bearing seals all round

· Same upright all round

· Angular-contact wheel bearings all round

· Chromoly steel-fabricated TIG-welded wishbones

· Quick adjustable ride height, camber, and toe

· electrically power assisted rack-and-pinion

Fuel System

· 90-litre bladder type fuel cell

· Dual Low-pressure fuel lifts pump plus dual high-pressure pumps

Transmission

· Ricardo sequential-shift gearbox

· Six forward speeds plus reverse with torque input capacity in excess of 500 Nm

· Adjustable gear ratios

· Paddle shift as standard

· Gear oil cooling system

Bodywork

· All body panels of lightweight infused epoxy glass composite construction

Brake System

· AP Racing six-piston aluminum calipers all round

· 380 mm diameter ventilated discs front and rear

· Full carbon brake set up as option

Wheels and Tyres

· Wheel dimensions 11”wide x 18” diameter front

· 13” wide x 18” diameter rear

· 3 piece wheels

· Centre lock and anti loosen to FIA standards

Cooling System

· 1 water radiators

· 8-litre dry sump oil tank

· Twin engine all cooler

· Twin Electric oil scavenge pump

· 1 intercooler

· Driver air-conditioning system

Electrical System

· Military-spec chassis wiring loom

· FIA-regulation emergency power cut-off switch

· External start jump plug

· Digital dash display and with full data logging

· Xenon headlamps

WEIGHT

· Minimum weight as specified by ACO 900kg excluding driver and fuel

Bailey - Beautifully Engineered Cars

http://www.baileyedwardscars.co.za

Snowy Trees

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Fields Beauty Wallpapers

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Beautiful Fields

Sunset Wallpapers

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Sunset View

Animated New Year Wallpapers

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New Year Wallpaper

New Year Greetings Wallpapers

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New Year Greetings

Desktop Wallpaper Christmas

2011-12-26T21:36:00.000-08:00

Desktop Wallpaper Christmas

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-25T06:45:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope you all have a safe and blessed Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!

2011-12-23T19:43:00.000-08:00

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!

Thank you for all your support this year (all of you that take your time to read this blog). We leave for Vienna in less than two weeks and I promise to pick up the blogging once we get settled.

In the meantime, Merry Merry!!

Autumn Path Wallpaper

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Flower Desktop Wallpapers

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Flower Wallpaper

Friend Ship Wallpapers

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Friend Ship Wallpapers

Cartoon Wallpapers

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Cartoon Wallpapers

Window Xp Desktop Wallpapers

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Glass Lamp

2011-12-22T06:47:00.000-08:00

Getting so close to Christmas I can hardly stand it!! So excited for all of the festivities. However, there's still a day of work left. Let's make that go faster by looking at our updated lamp....

That's what it looked like when my mom and I picked it up at a yard sale a few months back. I've seen this glass lamp style everywhere over the past few months.

Although this one wasn't exactly a looker at first I had high hopes that we could dress it up with a can of spray paint.

I was able to pull the whole thing apart (kinda) via a bolt on the bottom.

I cleaned it up really good and taped off the important stuff so that spray paint would not touch it.

1 can of Oil Rubbed Bronze later....

It didn't turn out to shabby at all and I have to admit I had my doubts.

I picked up the lamp shade at Target. I think it's a tad small for the lamp but it will do for now.

I love that I could potentially fill that glass lamp base with whatever I wanted. For instance, Christmas decor! Why am I only thinking of this two days before Christmas?

What do you think? Any comparison to those with the high price tags?

Merry Mini Christmas

2011-12-21T07:00:00.000-08:00

We had a very mini Christmas at our house this past weekend. My brother, Grayson, will be spending Christmas in Colorado this year...so we had an early Christmas celebration for him at our house.

It was lots of fun with lots of yummy food. See that cake...its Alton Brown's Red Velvet cake recipe...so delish. Those are Chocolate Crackle Cookies in the back. I found the recipe here. They were also yummy and made excellent Christmas gifts for the neighbors.

All of this baking was made possible by our new favorite toy....Merry Christmas to us:) Thanks Dad!!

Along with the food there was excellent wine...

And a goodie box of treats for our guest....

These two were the center of attention the entire night....

The lab is our nephew, River. Tillie is not so sure what to think of her much younger but way bigger cousin.

For the most part you could tell she wasn't happy with any other furry animals in our house. This is her hiding behind my Mom...avoiding River like the plague. At times though she did warm up...

I hope everyone is enjoying all of the fun Christmas gatherings going on this time of year! We loved having our family over to celebrate!

Fantasy Wallpapers

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Coffee Wallpapers

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Coffee Wallpaper

Christmas lights wallpapers

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Funky Desktop Wallpapers

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Funky Wallpaper

Christmas Gifts Wallpapers

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Christmas Gifts

Snow Road Wallpapers

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Snow on Road

Cute Barbie Wallpapers

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Barbie

December Activities

2011-12-19T11:42:00.000-08:00

A short post to let you know what we have been up to in December...it's been busy but probably the least stressful holiday season we've ever had. We've enjoyed every minute of it...I think because we finished our shopping in November. Reminder to self...do that every year. Here we are at Talon's office Christmas party...

We've baked SO many delicious goodies this year. This specific day I was baking red and white sugar cookie pinwheels. From the recipe I found here. They are definitely not as hard as they look...just a little time consuming.

We celebrated this big guy turning one...so fun to watch him grow:)

We've also made several attempts to drag Tils along for the ride where in the end every single time we decide it's best that she stays at home. This is her seating on the console in between the drivers and passenger side seat because she is insane in the car...

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season as much as we are!

Snow Falling Wallpapers

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Snow Falling Wallpaper

Cool Car Desktop Wallpapers

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Cool Car Desktop Wallpapers

Beautiful Birds Wallpapers

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Birds Wallpapers

Cool Desktop Wallpapers

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Cool Desktop Wallpapers

3d Desktop Wallpapers

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3d Desktop Wallpapers

hd Desktop Wallpapers

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hd Desktop Wallpapers

Happy Chrismas

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sexy chrismas girl

Upcoming 2012

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Beauty of Waterfall

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Waterfall

New Year Celebrations Wallpaper

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New Year Celebrations

Santa Claus wallpaper

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Santa Claus

Christmas Decor Wallpapers

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Christmas Decor

Christmas Tree

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Christmas Tree

The Smell of Christmas

2011-12-15T11:55:00.000-08:00

We are full force Christmas at our house. Lots of baking and Christmasy things going on. However, our artificial tree wasn't bursting with the smell of Christmas. And since we weren't ready to pop $200 dollars on a live one since our current artificial one was free from my parents as a hand me down I had to come up with a different approach. While driving to church this past Sunday we passed a place selling Christmas trees and I wondered what they did with all those branches that fall off the trees (ya know while people load them on to their cars and such). Well, turns out they just put them in a big bucket. And they will let you have them for FREE. So, we loaded up the back of the car with Christmas tree branches and brought those bad boys home...

And I stuck them in mason jars on our table and a pretty wooden box we scored at a yard sale a few months back....

I simply trimmed the branches to a shorter length and arranged them like you would flowers. Easy Peezy. Definitely one of my favorite Christmas decorations this year....

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

animal wallpapers

2011-12-15T09:24:00.000-08:00

animal wallpapers

Kate Spade-y Inspired Tabletop

2011-12-14T09:52:00.000-08:00

I am loving everything about this chic tabletop! The colors (pink, gray and gold) really inspire me and if I had the space to design a nursery for my little E, this picture would be one of the top contenders.

via

In the meantime, I am using the tablecloth and striped runner as inspiration for the baby quilt my mother in law will make for E. I am excited! I found the perfect fabric - here and here.

New Year Wallpapers

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New Year 2012

Winter Wallpapers

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Winter View

Most Beautifull Wallpapers

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Historic wallpapers

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fotress at bonifacio corsica France

The great chins Wall

Grand palace Brussels belgium

hamburg Germany

Grote market Brugge belgium

nature wallpapers

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nature wallpapers

Year Two.

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Tal and I are celebrating 2 years of marriage today:) Well, we've been celebrating all weekend but today is the official day of matrimony. We decided that the best way for us to celebrate would be to do something together. So on Saturday we headed to Atlanta for a day trip. We had so much fun just hanging out together all day...

In true Woods family form...we made a stop at IKEA while we were there...

Where we loaded up on lots of goodies for the hizzy...

It was a day of celebration which was an obvious excuse to eat terribly unhealthy food and drink lots of Starbucks....

Tal's basket of goodies he was semi-surprised with this morning {note: your husband can view all of your instagram photos that you post} which he more than deserves for being such an amazing husband.

Here's to many many more happy years of marriage {like fo-eva}....

Tangled Wallpaper

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Tangled

Black Rose Wallpaper

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Black Rose

Lightning Wallpapers

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Lightning

Garden Wallpapers

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Beauty of Garden

Fog Wallpapers

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Castle in Fog

Fogy Scene

Castle Wallpapers

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Castle

Snow Spread

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Snowy Wallpaper

Abstract Wallpapers

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Abstract Wallpaper

Rainbow Wallpapers

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Rainbow colors

Desktop Backgrounds

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Animated Desktop Wallpapers

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Animated Wallpapers

Cane Chair

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This past weekend I finally got around to updating the cane chair I scored at a yard sale a month or so back. Remember...I talked about it here and here. Here's the before shot...

I decided that tearing down the fabric since it had all those tacks would be more work than I wanted to put in to it. So I did the lazy thing and just went straight to the spray paint....

It took several coats of the Krylon Dual Paint and Primer in One to get this bad boy to go white.

Then I ran out to JoAnns and bought discount fabric that semi-matched my living room and started re-covering the seat. I was about half way finished when I realized tearing off the old fabric to use as a pattern would have been about six bajillion times easier. Live and Learn.

I'm loving the newest addition that also provides additional seating. Gotta love functional pieces.

Not bad for $12.00....

I even made a fun pillow with the leftover fabric. Which almost ended in me throwing my sewing machine out the window. Literally. Why is it every time I break that thing out I want to slam it in the wall??

We have a fun weekend planned...so happy it's Friday!

Cute Babies

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Sweet babies

Easy Wreath

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My Mom had this wreath in her goodwill pile this past weekend. I've been wanting a wreath for our back porch for a while now...so I snatched it in hopes that I could make it come to life....

In the midst of spraying a dozen other things white over the weekend this wreath got caught up in the paint. It was surprisingly really easy to spray. Only took about two coats on each side and she was done.

I tried to get creative and think of something fun for Christmas I could do with it...like add ornaments or Christmas ribbon. So far, all I've come up with is this burlap ribbon. I made it from burlap I bought at Lowe's. Did you know that you can buy burlap at Lowe's? Well you can. It's in the garden section. It comes in a roll and is great because it has edges that are seamed together - which is great for projects like this.

At least with just simple burlap I can keep it up after Christmas...here's to a very easy project!

Countdown is on...

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and I'm not talking about Christmas (although that is around the corner too). We'll be in Vienna in less than a month and I can hardly contain my excitement! And, while it has been hard saying good-bye to our friends, I know we'll be back next fall so it's really not that long.

I am certainly bummed though that we will be missing out of one of Europe's greatest traditions - the Christmas Market. We will be arriving right at the New Year so it'll be over, but the thought of a fabled Christmas market where you can exchange chain stores for cozy wooden chalets, Christmas music for angelic choirs and consumer frenzy for down to earth local holiday cheer makes me sad. Just a different experience that I would love for my son to see.

In the meantime, I'm in a mad rush to finish Christmas shopping...thank God for online stores!

Autumn Beauty

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Autumn Scene

Sunny Wallpapers

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Sunshine

Desktop Rainy Wallpapers

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Rainy Wallpapers

Smiley Wallpapers

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Smileys

CoOl Desktop Wallpapers

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Best Desktop Wallpapers

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Best Wallpaper

Beauty of Nature

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Nature Wallpaper

Desktop Wallpaper Art

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Wallpaper Art

Door = Mirror

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Doors are kind of every where right now. Bloggers/Crafters are making everything out of them. We have been on the band wagon for a while ourselves. Pre-blog we made a headboard for our guest bedroom that is still one of my favorite pieces in our home. The second experiment started off as a possible farm table for our dining room. We were so indecisive on what we wanted we moved on to creating something we actually needed with it. A mirror for our master bedroom. We were using one of those hang over the door mirrors from college. Needless to say that thing is already at the goodwill. Very happy to see it go. Lucky for us my Dad seems to have a never ending supply of doors. We went through and picked out one that would be a good size and that also had a single insert instead of multiple panels. See below....

Talon removed the trim from the outside of the insert of the door. We wanted the mirror to sit flush inside the door panel. I didn't want the fact that it was an old door to be completely obvious. You.know...stay away from being to terribly trendy. Once the trim was removed Talon took measurements and ordered our mirror.

The way our mirror was inserted into the door it did not need to be thick. Therefore, it only cost us $25.00 for our piece of glass (that's total - for the glass and having them cut it).

We carefully placed the glass on the door to ensure it was going to fit as we wanted...

Once done we debated whether or not to add trim around the frame. We decided against it. We both didn't think it was necessary.

After cleaning it really well we used mirror adhesive to glue the mirror to our door.

We moved it straight in to our bedroom. Talon used tape to make sure it wasn't going anywhere. 2 days later and it's still in tact.

Here is the final product....

I must admit that it came out about a thousand times better than I ever thought it would. I think it's the perfect mix of unique and functional.

I especially love that we were able to ditch our old college over the door mirror.

Yah for a 25.00 full body mirror. Those things are expensive to purchase! Happy Monday everyone!

The Blue Papered Powder Room

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Just when I thought I couldn't see beyond pink, I have fallen madly in love with blue - blue papered powder rooms! Most of these powder rooms belong to fellow bloggers and in my humble opinion, I think they are fantastic!

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Aren't blogs the greatest source of inspiration?

Friendship Quotes

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Friends Forever